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ONE hundred and thirty-four years ago, in this old Quaker 
City, our fathers solemnly declared their intention " to 
assume among the powers of the earth the separate and 
equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God 
entitle them". They here submitted their reasons to a candid 
world— and that world knows how they reached their station. 

The present beneficiaries of their wisdom, courage and 
self-sacrifice are so engrossed with business and pleasure that 
little, if any, thought is given to the way in which the Govern- 
ment they established protects our persons and our properly. 
True it is, nevei'theless, and worthy of constant recognition, 
that under and around those things which we as individuals 
hold most dear— our homes, our households and our liberty, 
there ever stands our Government of and by and for the people. 

hi line with this, on the return of Independence Day, we 
have for some years published a booklet i-elating to our Nation, 
or to some of its noble army of defenders. This year our 
thoughts have turned to Ulysses S. Grant, soldier and President, 
great man of war, great man of peace, patriot who always 
did his best, friend of those against whom he had fought, and 
who, dying, healed forever the wounds of our brothers' war. 

One man, at least, is the better for having recalled the life 
of Ulysses S. Grant. Let us hope that others, also, because of 
this little reminder, will think again and think more of him and 
of the Nation he so wonderfully served. 



Lest we forget ! Lest we forget ! 



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GRANT AFTKIi I.KAVING WEST POINT. 

After daguerreotype taken probably on hts way to Mexico. 
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NEAR ST. LOUIS. MISSOI'Rl. 

From " Ulj-sses S. Grant," by Hamlin Garland. Published by Douhlcday. Page * Co. 



GRANT'S THREE NAMES 

In connection with liis entrance to West 
Point, Grant twice chanjred his name. Up to 
that time he had been l<nown as Hiram 
Ulysses, or H. Ulysses Grant. On a trunk he 
was to take to West Point the maker, after 
the fashion of those days, formed three larije 
initials with brass-headed nails. When be 
saw these, and realized what the cadets would 
do with the letters " H. U. G.", Grant cban<red 
the order of his given names and registered 
at West Point as Ulysses H. Grant. Mean- 
while, Congressman Hamer, in his appoint- 
ment papers, had guessed at Grant's middle 
letter, and knowing that his mother was a 
Simi)son made it S. and it was entered in this 
way on the records of the War Department. 
Learning of the trouble and the delay which 
a correction would involve, young (irant said, 
"so let it be", and without further opposition 
to fate or to friends he settled down to live 
with the name which he was to place far up 
at the top among those his country delights 
to honor Ulysses Sim|)son Gi-ant. 



GRANT AS A SMOKER 

Concerning his smoking habits, General 
F. D. Grant tells us that his father was an oc- 
casional smoker only until the Battle of Fort 
Donelson. At that time he visited one of 
the War vessels to call on Admiral Foote, who 
had been wounded. The Admiral gave the 
General a cigar. He had hardly lit it when he 
received an urgent summons to come ashore 
and meet an attack. He hurried to the front 
with the cigar in his mouth, and became so 
engrossed in the struggle that he kept it in his 
possession during the entire engagement. In 
reporting this battle some newspaper man 
stated that General Grant appeared on the 
field with a cigar in bis mouth, and the country 
got that statement together witli the most im- 
portant news of the fall of Fort Donelson. 
The result was that a flood of cigars from 
everywhere poured in upon the General. He 
soon had received eleven thousand. To re- 
duce this surplus he gave away and smoked 
away, the second method establishing the 
habit which continued throughout his life. 



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AS A BOY FOR NEARLY FIFTEEN YEARS. STANDING IN 1S9.S. 

From "Ulysses S. Grant", by Hamlin Garland. Published by Doubleday, Paye A- Co. 

THE ORIGIN OF McKINLEY'S LAST WORDS. 



The whole world was touched at the way in 
which President McKinley entered into the 
other life ; yet few know that the manner of 
it was not impromptu with him. Two years 
before, in April, 1899, at the unveiling of the 
statue of General Grant in Philadelphia, 
President McKinley had .expressed this same 
thought in describing the death of his old 
commander-in-chief, and even employed the 
same words, in setting forth how in his opin- 
ion a soldier should die. 

In the course of his remarks at the Academy 
of Music, McKinley said, "The last time that 
the public looked upon General Grant's face in 
life was when he appeared at the window of 
his home, in the city of New York, to look for 
the last time upon his comrades of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He not only achieved 
great victories in war, and great administra- 
tive triumphs in peace, but he was permitted 
to do what few men have been permitted to 
do -to live long enough to write with his own 
pen the history he had made in command of 
the armies of the United States. .\nd what a 
history it is ! It should be read by all th(> boys 
and girls of the land, for it tells in its chaste, 
simple, honest, but most forceful way the 
achievements of the army of the United States; 



and when he had finished that work he laid 
down his pen and like a good soldier said to 
his Master, "Now, let Thy will be done, not 
mine." 

This shows how one great life influences 
another. Here we find outlined by the be- 
loved McKinley his ideal of a soldier's death — 
an ideal he was to realize at Buffalo in 1901, 
when for himself he said, "God's will, not 
mine be done." To die that way one must 
live that way. To live that way one must in- 
deed be a man. 



The following from (jrant's letter to Gov- 
ernor Washburne offering his services to the 
Army, shows the modesty of the man who 
later was to command a million men. 

" I left the Army never expecting to return. 
I am not seeking for position, but the country 
which educated me is in sore peril, and as a 
man of honor I feel bound to offer my ser- 
vices for whatever they are worth. I would 
rather like a regiment. I know there are few 
men really competent tocomniand a thousand 
soldiers ; I doubt whether I am one of them." 




I KM. GRANTS CAHIN. FOKMKHI.V HIS HKADQUARTKKS AT riTV POINT. VIRGINIA, 
NOW IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA 
From Century MaKa/ine, October, IS85. 



When historic buildings are considered here is one that will interest every patriot and histo- 
rian. This little slab cabin will awaken vivid recollections in the mind of many a soldier who saw 
it when it sheltered (leneral Grant at City Point, Virginia. It was built in November, 1864, on a 
bluff overlooking the .lames River, near its junction with the Appoiiuittox. It was occupied by 
(ieneral (irant for four months. From 
it he directed the movements of a mil- 
lion soldiers ; of Sherman on his famous 
march ; of Thomas at Nashville ; of 
Terry at Fort Fisher ; of Schofield at 
Wilmington ; of Canby at Mobile ; of 
Sheridan and Meade in the struggle in 
southern Virginia. Here he received the 
Confederate Commissioners on their 
way to meet Lincoln ; here one day met 
Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade and 
Porter ; here Lincoln passed many of 
the last hours of his life, and from 
here, on March 3), 186,5, General Grant 
departed to conduct the movement 
that ended at Appomattox on April 9. 

This cabin was removed to Philadel- 
phia in 186.5, and the citizens of that 
city should aid the .\rt Association of „.^-.._ 
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Hei'e's a letter that is unique in 
history. It is a request maile of the 
president of some future day by 
General Grant a few months before 
his death, asking that his grandson, 
and General F. D. Grant's son, U. S. 
Grant, 8rd, then a child, be aj^pointed 
as a cadet to West Point. 

He says: " May I ask you to favor the 
appointment of Ulysses S. Grant (the son of 
my son Frederick Grant) as a cadet at West 
Point, upon his appHcation. In so doing you 
will gratify the wishes of U. S. Grant." 

General Sherman in his endorsement says: 
" It seems superfluous that any addition 
should he necessary to the above, but I 
cheerfully add my name in the full belief 
that the child of such parents will be most 
worthy of the appointment solicited. 
W. T. Sherman." 

The effective order is by President 
McKinley, into whose friendly hands it 
came thirteen years after it was written. 




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Jesse Root Grant at sixty-nine. Hannah Simpson Grant. 

THE PARENTS OF GENERAL ULYSSES S. ORANT. 

From the CenUiry Magazine, June, 1908. 

These Purtiaits are from oiitzinai photographs owned by E. R. Burke of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 

whose mother was a cousin of General Grant. 




F. D. GRANT— THE SON OF HIS FATHER. 



Frederick Dent Grant, the eldest son of 
Ulysses Simpson and Julia Dent Grant, was 
born at St. Louis, May 30, IS.W. He was 
graduated from WVst Point in 1871. .\s aide- 
de-camp with the rank of Colonel on General 
Sheridan's staff he saw eight years of service 
on our Indian Frontier. He resigned from the 
Army in 1S8! ; was appointed United States 
Ministei- to Austria by President Harrison in 
ISS.'i, and was Police Commissioner of New 
York City from 18!)4 to 1898. 

On the breaking out of the Spanish-.\meri- 
can War he volunteered and was appointed 
Colonel of the Fourteenth New York Infantry, 
soon receiving a commission as Brigadier- 
General. After service in Cuba he was hon- 
orably discharged in April, 1899. He was 
appointed Brigadier-General in the regular 
army February 18, 1891, serving with distinc- 
tion in the Philippines. On February G, 190(1, 
he was commissioned as Major'-General. He 
has been in command of the Di>i)artments of 
Texas, of the East, and twice of the Lakes, 
where he is at this writing. 

From this brief summary it will be seen that 
Major-Cieneral Grant has seen long and varied 



service. Congress has now before it a law 
fixing the beginning of his War service, auth- 
orizing the War Department to muster him 
into the Volunteer Service of the United States, 
with the rank of Captain and acting Aide-de- 
camp on his father's staff, April 29, 1863, the 
date of the Battle of Grand Gulf, the first of 
the Vicksburg campaign, and mustering him 
out of the service July 4, 1863, the date of the 
Vicksburg surrender. While his devotion to 
his father has always been marked, in his 
days of trial and suffering in New York, and 
at the end on Mt. McGregor, it was beautiful 
to see. How much it contributed to the old 
Commander's comfort no one can tell. 

The resemblance of Major-General Grant to 
his father is a matter of common remark. It 
is doubtless also a source of satisfaction to tlic 
affectionate and dutiful son. Since the last sad 
rites at Riverside General Grant has been glad 
to share his father's life with the people for 
whom it was ex])ended. Every evidence of 
their regard for the father has been keenly 
appreciated by the son, who, with a son of his 
own in the Army, is still devoting his own life 
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MK.MOHIAL Bl'II.l)rN(i AT (111. I Mi:i ^, iililn 
funlalnfnn Grant's Kirlliplacc :i( Mt. Pleasant. Ttu' tablet on (he tower corner reads as follows : 

"(ieneral Ulysses S. Grant was born in tlie cottage enclosed in this nieinorial buildinir on tlie 27lh day of April, A. D. 
IsfJ'J. at Mt. Pleasant. C'lermniU County. Ohio. The eottak'e was removed to C'olumhns and presented to the Ohio State 
Hoard of Auricultiire hy .Mr. Henry T. Chittenden in KSSS and the Memorial Huildini: was erected by the Boardof ISitil. 



Along with the Star of Empife and the 
center of population, the hirthplaee of presi- 
dents seems to have taken a westward way. 
Of the hundreds of millions who have in- 
habited our country, only twenty-six men 
have been honored by the office of its Presi- 
dent. Of these twenty-six, four (four out of 
the first fivei — Washinfjton, Jefferson, Madi- 
son and Monroe — were from the great old 
Commonwealth of Virginia ; while six (six 



out of the last iiinei— Grant, Hayes, Garfield, 
Benjamin Harrison, McKinley and Taft — came 
from the great Commonwealth of Ohio. Nor 
are presidents alone the product of these two 
states ; soldiers are likewise in their line. 
Virginia furnished the Civil War with the 
great Confederate (lenerals, Lee, Jackson and 
Johnson, while Ohio gave the Union cause 
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan — great sons 
of states our Nation delights to honor. 




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Copyright by liiHtiMWOod it Uniiurwuutl, N. V. 

This monumental tomb, the most imposinjj in the world, stands in New York City, one 
hundred and thirty feet above the Hudson, and is visible for miles. General (irant died July 
23d, 1885. His tomb was erected by the Grant Monument Association, of which President Arthur 
was the first President. The design is by ,J. H. Duncan. Ground was broken April 'JTth, 1891, 
when an oration was delivered by General Horace Porter, long Military Secretary to General 
Grant. In February, 1892, General Porter was elected President of the Monument Association, 
and assumed the task of raising the money to complete the tomb, a task whicli he carried out 
with great resource and success. On April 27th, of the same year, the corner stone was laid by 
President Harrison. By Decoration Day the whole amount was subscribed. In amounts rang- 
ing from one cent to five hundred dollars about ninety thousanil contributors gave six hundred 
thousand dollars. The stone employed is a very light granite from North .lay, Maine. The 
tomb is ninety feet scpiare and its height is one liundrcd and fifty feet. From the laying 
of the corner stone, the time occupied in building was five years. 



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THE GRANT MONUMENT, FAIRMOUNT PARK. I'HII-ADEI-PHU. 

Courtesy I-'alrniount Park Art Association. 

This statue stands at the intersection of the }\ast Kiver Drive anti Fountain Green 
Drive in front of the I-'ouutain Green arches. It was unveiled on Grant Day, April 
27th, 1S'.)9, by Miss Rosemary Sartoris, Granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant, in 
Uie presence of President McKinley, members of his Cabinet, a detachment of the 
..\rmy under General Miles, and a distinguished company, including Mrs. Ulysses 
S. Grant, Major General Frederick 1). Grant, and other members of their family. 

The figure of the General is by Daniel Chester French, and the horse by Edward 
C. Totter. "The Statue was cast by Bureau Brothers, of Philadelphia, and cost $32,675.3:"). 
Ill the evening of tliat day a large assemblage gathered at the Academy of Music and 
listened to an oration on Grant by Hampton L. Carson, Esq., and some very significant 
reniark-i bv I'resident McKinley, which are referred to elsewhere. 



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GENKKAl. GRANTS .MOST FAMOUS DISPATCH 
From the Cenlury Maira/lne, vVprfl. IHH: 

II torms a porlloii ot a lellor wrlllon lo Ooncral Halk-ck diirliii! Ihc slruBKlo In Iho wilderness, at llie 
close ot Hie sIxHi day ot very heavy tightink'. The facsimile Indicates that Grant had another period of 
lime In mind which he changed to "airsummer." 



MOULDS OF GRANT'S CHARACTER 



Very curious are the moulds in which per- 
sonal character and characteristics are formed. 
General Grant was unusually honest and exact 
in his statements. In his "Memoirs" he takes 
the reader behind the scenes, and with ut- 
most frankness and simplicity shows him the 
experiences which shaped his remarkable life. 
One of these occurred when he was eight 
years old. His fondness for horses had already 
shown itself. A neighbor owned a colt which 
Ulysses greatly admired. Finally his father 
consented to its purchase if it could be had 
for twenty dollars. As the boy's heart was 
so wrapped up in the colt, his father, on send- 
ing him to make the trade, told him first to 
offer twenty dollars, then twenty-two dollars 
and fifty cents, and, if necessary, twenty-five 
— the neighbor's price. Ulysses hastened on 
the errand, and told the horse-owner exactly 
what his father had told him— that he was to 
offer first twenty, next twenty-two fifty, and 
finally twenty-five, if necessary. General 
Grant adds that it would not take a very astute 
man to tell what price he paid for the horse. 
The details of this transaction soon spread 
about the village, and in the General's own 
language, caused him great "heart burning," 
and it was a long time before he heard the last 
of it. General Grant relates that on first 
seeing General Scott, the Commander-in-Chief 
at West Point, he was much impressed with 
his commanding presence, and even had a 
presentiment that some day he would occupy 
a like place on review, but remembering his 
early horse trade, and what it cost him, he did 
not communicate his thoughts to a living soul. 
Another experience with far-reaching 
effects was in connection with the new uni- 
form he procured after leaving West Point. 
On his first appearance on horseback in Cin- 
cinnati, in what he considered a fine and im- 
pressive costume, he was followed and loudly 
jeered at in a most annoying way by a ragged 
street urchin. A little later, a stableman, with 
whom he was slightly acquainted, sewed white 
cotton stripes on his blue jean over-alls in 
order to irritate Ulysses— and succeeded far 
beyond his expectations. These two trifling 
experiences, as Grant puts it, knocked the 
conceit completely out of him, and no doubt 
accounted for the marked indifference to uni- 
form and military decorations for which ho 
was noted in after years. 

A third experience, more important in its 
results, happened when he first led a regi- 



ment to meet an enemy— Col. Thomas Harris, 
who was said to be encam])ed at Florida, Mo. 
Grant says "My sensations as we approached 
what was supposed to be a field of battle were 
anything but agreeable. I had been in all the 
engagements in Mexico that it was possible 
for one person to be in, but not in command. 
Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom 
for the sake of being near water. The hills 
on either side extended to a considerable 
height. As we approached the brow of the 
hill, from which it was expected we could see 
Harris' camp, and probably find his men 
formed ready to meet us, my heart kept get- 
ting higher and higher until it felt to me as 
though it was in my throat. I would have 
given anything then to have been back in 
Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to 
retreat and consider what to do. I kept right 
on. When we reached a point from which 
the valley was in full view, I halted. The place 
where Harris had been encamped was still 
there, but the troops were gone. My heart 
resumed its place. It occurred to me at once 
that Harris had been as much afraid of me as 
I had been of him. This was a view of the 
situation I had never taken before, but it was 
one I never forgot afterwards. From that 
event to the close of the war, I never experi- 
enced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, 
though I always felt more or less anxiety. I 
never forgot that he had as much reason to 
fear my forces as I had his." 

As showing how Grant practiced this atti- 
tude of self-reliance, an anecdote related by 
General Wilson is of great interest. On the 
night before Sherman began his march to the 
sea, he and Wilson talked long and confiden- 
tially by the camp fire. Suddenly Sherman ex- 
claimed : " Wilson, I'm a great deal smarter 
man than Grant ; I see things a great deal more 
(luicklythan he does; I know more about law, 
and history, and war, and nearly everything 
else than he does, but I'll tell you where 
he beats me, and beats the world— he don't 

care a d for what he can't see the enemy 

doing, and it scares me like h !" 

So here, in Grant's own book, we get a look 
at the moulds which formed his ability to keep 
his own counsel, his indifference to uniforms 
and ornaments, and most important of all, his 
self - reliance and coolness on the field of 
battle. Who to-day can estimate what these 
early lessons were worth to the man and to 
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TO GENKKAI, BUCKN'KK AT KORT DONKI.SON. 

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OKNKKAL GRANT ON HIS 1 IHSI TKd' NDUI H AITKR TIIK WAIi. 
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C.KNKKAl. GRANT RRCONNOITKRINO AT SPOTTSVI.VANIA. 

From "{'umpulirnlni: with Granl", by Horace PorttT, published by the Century Co. 
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From •■HiiltlL-s and Leaders of the Civil Wai ■, I'ulilislied by the Centuiy Co. 



U. S. GRANT A MAN OF PEACE 



General Ulysses S. (Jraiit was a man of 
peace. He fought as a matter of duty and 
he always fought vigorously and persistently, 
but when the War was over he was through. 
Other combatants might cool off slowly, and 
non-combatants might long glow with heat 
and bitterness, but he was through. He re- 
alized that the struggle had been over an idea, 
and when that had been given up there was 



no enemy— no tei-ritory to seize, no bound- 
aries to adjust, no indemnity to exact, no 
foreign people to absorb ; only kindness to be 
shown, only forbearance to be exercised by a 
people one and indivisible. From '65 to '85; 
from the day at Appomattox to the m'ght at 
Mt. McGregor, our Nation had before itdi'ant's 
white banner with its immortal legend, "Let 
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INTKKKSTINO LETTER OF GENKRAl, GRANT'S KATHKH 

From McClure's Magazine, May. IS94. 

The completi- li-ltt-r. (rotii the War Collerlion ttf Mr. Janu's Coslt-r. reads as follows. 

Covin. ;tox (KY.]. Ffb.'mh, 'tio. 
I i:ank a. Hit. ton, EsuK. 

Dear Sir, 

Yours of the 22nd askinn an autograph letter from my son Is just reed. And as your request is not an unreasonable one 
I hasten to comply with your request. 

I have no letler from him wrillun for sueh a purpose, and send one of no private or public Interest. If you have been a 
close observer of his personal character, you have doubtless learned befon> (his limo, that ho is a man of creal personal 
modesty. He rarely alludes to his plans, or his hopes even to me. And to It many attribute much of his success. 

I will remark here that we are of Connecticut oraicln, my Father was a native of that state A lived there until he was 
46 years of aye. When Ulysses was a boy he desire<l an education, & as 1 did not feel able to stand the expense I suifcesled 
West Point which met his vU'ws, without any thouRht by him or me, as to the military part of the course there. His oratfln 
you will see was bumble and poor. 1 am now past 71, but enjoy utmost youthful heallb. A- expect to live to see this wicked 
rebellion put down by the power of the sword. A- you will not dispute my word, when I say it affords me some satisfaction 
to think that I have reared a boy that has rendered a little assistance to Father Abraham In finishing his '* bin job." 

Respectfully yours ic 

JES8E R. GKANT. 



GRANT AS PRESIDENT 

The rise of U. S. Grant was the most rapid 
and remarkable in American History — four 
years from an unknown storekeeper to the 
successful command of the armies of the 
Union. But there was nothinir in this experi- 
ence to give him knowledge of statecraft or 
poHticians. Here the self-reliance which stood 
him in such good stead as a soldier failed, and 
he was forced to depend on others, and was 
often misled, to his chagrin and injury. 

General Grant was inaugurated as the 
eighteenth president of the United States on 
March 4, 1869, and he served the country for 
eight years. He regarded the Treaty of Wash- 
ington, on May 8, 1871, as the most far-reaching 
act of his administra- 
tion. This fixed the 
northern boundary 
between Canada and 
the United States at 
the Pacific Coast ; set- 
tled some very old 
claims for damages 
arising out of the 
Fisheries on the East- 
ern coast; and, 
through the Joint 
High Commission and 
the award at Geneva, 
brought this country 
fifteen and a half mil- 
lion dollars in satis- 
faction of the .Ala- 
bama claims. 

In his message of 
1870, President Grant 
took strong ground in 
favor of Civil Service 
reform. He even ap- 
pointed a commission for that pur-pose, which 
Congress would not pay. President Grant 
was a strong friend of Mexico. He had fought 
there in his younger days, and during his 
presidency he frustrated the attempts of 
European Nations to set up their government 
in that country. 

His instructions to our Minister to China and 
Japan contain a sentence worthy of our later 
day foreign policy: "Deal with those powers 
as we would wish a strong nation to deal with 
us if we were weak." The famous Resump- 
tion Act was largely President Grant's motion : 
while the Inflation Bill of 1874 received his 
veto. The humiliating frauds in the Internal 
Revenue, in 187.^), called out his honest burst 
of indignation : "Let no guilty man escape." 




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FROMSOUnil UN II I INOIS. 

A photograph by Brady. From "Ulysses S. Grant," 

by Hamlin Garland. Published by Doubleday. Page A Co 



ASSISTING FATHER ABRAHAM 

In February, 186,5, Jesse Root Grant wrote 
toafriend, in the letter elsewhere reproduced, 
that it afforded him some satisfaction to think 
that "he had reared a boy that had rendered a 
little assistance to Father Abraham in finish- 
ing his big job." The "big job" was finished 
soon thereafter, and Uncle Jesse lived to see 
his boy honored for the part he performed in 
it, and also inaugurated as President of the 
Nation he had served. 

It was surely a case of "boys wanted" with 
Father Abraham in 1861, and it was indeed 
the boys of the country who responded to its 
need. How clearly General Grant understood 
this is well set forth in his remarks in an ad- 
dress at Hamburg, 
Germany, on his tour 
of the world. He 
^ said: "I must dissent 

from the remark of 
our consul that I 
saved the country in 
our recent war. If I 
had never held com- 
mand, if I had fallen, 
if all our generals had 
fallen, there were ten 
thousand behind us 
who would have done 
our work just as well. 
What saved the Union 
was the coming for- 
ward of the young 
men of the Nation, 
and the humblest sol- 
dier who carried a 
musket is entitled to 
as much credit for the 
results of the War 
as those who were in command." 

.According to the best obtainable figures, 
there were sworn into the Northern Army 
2,841,096 soldiers, whose average age was 
nineteen years. This record is of enlistments, 
and of course includes those who enlisted 
more than once. There doubtless served in 
the army two million men, and the average 
age shows that the defenders of our country 
were boys in years, though men in deeds. 



President Grant opened and closed the Cen- 
tennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. On 
his tour of the woi-ld he left that city in May, 
1S77, and reached it again in December, 1879. 



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LINCOLN AND (iRANT. 



Ik'tween Lincoln and (irant tliinijs went well 
from the first. The gre-it Statesman and the 
great Soldier had much in common, and 
quickly came to understand and believe in 
each other. Both came from the West ; both 
were humble in their origin and plain in 
their tastes; both were acquainted with adver- 
sity and accustomed to struggle ; both were 
honest in thought and word ; both possessed 
great self-reliance and courage, never taking 
counsel of their fears ; both hated sham and 
affectation ; both always did their best ; both 
possessed an immovable faith in the people 
and in the people's Government, and were 
ready at any time to stake their all for "the 
right as God gave them to see the right." 

In addition to these resemblances each had 
sincere respect and admiration for the other, 
and always gave the other lots of elbow-room. 
Grant's rule was to avoid things outside of a 
soldier's province. In September, 1801, he 
said to the citizens of I'aducah, "I have nothing 
to do with opinions, and shall deal only with 
armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors." 
Lincoln, for his part, was glad to leave military 
affairs to the man who would take the respon- 
sibility and act. In July, 1863, after V'icksburg, 
he wrote Grant an inspiring letter (elsewhere 
reproduced) containing a phrase that bears the 
hall-mark of true greatness— "You were right 
and I was wrong;" and on April liO, 18G4, 
happy in having found a soldier who w'ould 
fight, who knew the value of minutes, and 
who was indifferent to everything but a 
soldier's business, he wrote to (irant, "The 
particulars of your plans I neither know nor 
seek to know," and pledging him all the help 



it was in his power to give. In shoi-t, each 
counted the other as ecpial to his task -and 
each was riglit in that opinion. 

The ceremonies attendant ujjon the assump- 
tion by Grant of the command of the Northern 
Armies, with the especially restored rank of 
Lieutenant-General, were simple and impres- 
sive. They occurred on March 8, 1864. Lin- 
coln said, ".\sthe country trusts you, so, under 
God, it will sustain you," and Grant replied, 
"I feel the full weight of the responsibilities 
now devolving upon me, and I know if they 
are met it will be due to the .Armies, and, 
above all, to the favor of that Providence 
which leads both nations and men." 

The close of the war found the President 
and the General in accord as to the treatment 
to be given the South after the struggle had 
ended — a peace which one was long to labor 
for and the other hardly to see. Grant hurried 
from Appomattox to Washington, anxious to 
(•ut off the four million dollars a day which 
the war was costing at that time, and to dis- 
band the Army, permitting the soldiers to 
take up again the pursuits of peace. 

How full of satisfaction and thanksgiving 
must have been the interview between 
Lincoln and Grant on that fateful fourteenth 
day of .Xpril, at the close of which Grant 
started to visit his children at Rurlington, New- 
Jersey, only to receive word in Philadelphia 
that Lincoln had been assassinated. This 
General Grant always spoke of as the saddest 
day of his life - a life that was to extend for 
twenty years, permitting him to lead his 
countrymen along Lincoln's way of good 
feeling and harmony to its very close. 






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Facsimile of President Lincoln's letter to General Grant in retc'rence to the capture ci( Viiksliiirn. I'rMni llu' orlBlnal now hi thi> 
"Dreer Collection" at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 



SOME OF GRANT'S CHARACTERISTICS 



What General Grant accomplished was so 
wonderful and so valuable that his character 
makes a most interesting study. He was a 
deep and careful thinker; he learned by ex- 
perience, working out axioms or deductions 
to which he was ever loyal, and for which he 
was willing to risk all. He respected his own 
judgment to an uncommon degree, and was 
always faithful to the light within. When he 
decided what was the thing to do he never 
wavered or doubted. He would say, "I have 
done my best and could do no better." 

General Horace Porter, whose opportunities 
for observation were 
excellent, gives the 
salient points of Gen- 
e'-al Grant's character 
as truth, courage, 
modesty, generosity 
and loyalty. He pos- 
sessed gi-eat courage, 
both physical and 
moral, General Porter 
declaring that he was 
one of only two per- 
sons whom he had 
seen who cou'd sit 
in theirsaddles under 
rattlingmusketryfirc, 
without moving a 
muscle or winking an 
eye. 

His modesty is suf- 
ficiently illustrated in 
his Memoirs. They 
contain no laudation 
of himself and omit 
no good word possible 
concerning others. In 
the same connection, 
his letter to Gov. 
Washburne offering 
his services as a soldier is very interesting. 
Loyalty was ingrained in his make-up. Loyal 
to any task he undertook, to any cause in 
which he would engage ; to his friends, to his 
family and to his country. He did with his 
might what his hands found to do. 

He had a memory for names, faces and 
events that was most accurate and remarkable. 
He was most exact and ti-uthful in his state- 
ments, and remarkably clean in his speech. 
He had promised his mother never to utter 
an oath, and had faithfully kept his word. 
Those who knew him would never venture a 




CAPTAIN U. S. GRANT. 

From a Hayiieri-oolypp (one-fourth of the above sl/e) given l)y liini 

to Mrs. (irant. and worn by her as a wristlet. 

From the Century .Magazine, October, 18S5. 



(luestionable stoi-y in his presence. On one 
occasion after dinner, a guest, with such an 
anecdote in mind, asked if any ladies were in 
hearing. The General, then President, simply 
replied, "No, but there are some gentlemen 
present," and showed his readiness to leave 
the room. 

To his self-reliance he added great patience. 
Having clearly thought out a line of action he 
adhered to it with i-emarkable persistence. 
His experience in the Wilderness was a great 
illustration of this trait. He had figui-ed it 
out that Lee's Army, and not Richmond, was 
his true objective, and 
that to keep hammei-- 
ing was the right way 
to end the struggle. 
.\11 this was epitom- 
ized in his letter to 
Halleck at the close 
of the sixth day of 
fighting: " I propose 
to fight it out on this 
line if it tr.kes all 
sutr.mer." 

He was a man of 
sti'ong domestic 
tastes, and was never 
so happy as when he 
had his family about 
him, a feeling they ful- 
ly leciprocated. In his 
last try ing days, when 
t h e w bole w o i' 1 d 
watched his entrance 
into the valley, he 
was surrounded by 
an inner circle of lov- 
ing attention, which 
did much to rob suf- 
fei'ingand misfoi-tune 
of their power. 
Around his neck after his death was found 
a long bi-aid of woman's hair, interwoven with 
that of a child. It had been sent across the 
continent to hitn when stationed on the Pacific 
Coast. The husband and fathei- had worti it 
for over tbirtv years. 



"1 do not wondei- that people differ with 
me. What hurts me is to have them talk as if 
I did not love my country and was not doing 
the best that I know how." U. S. G. 






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From Century Magazine, April, 1M97 




IIIK M.I.KAN llOl'SK IN APPOMA I I . IX. \ I Ki , I M \, M. II I Kl. > . mM \Nh 1 I 1 MKT AMI I IMII IIIK TERMS OF 
LEE'.- SL'KHKNDEK. APRIL 9th, Iss.i. 
From " Ulysses S. Grant", by Hamlin Garland. Published by Doubleday, Page ,V: Co. 



THE DREAM THAT 

Dp. Newman, his pastor and intimate friend, 
write.s that General (Irant oiiee said to him "1 
have a dream that fills me with hope and 
peace ; that the time will eome when there 
will he a Supreme Court of the World, with 
its chief .justice and associate justices, before 
wliose bar nations shall stand for the adjudica- 
tion of those international questions which 
are now settled by the sword on the field of 
carnajTC." 

Since these prophetic words were uttered, 
moie than thirty years a<ro, the cause of 
peaceful arbitration has steadily won recoi>ni- 
tion from the nations of the earth. With such 
friends as McKinley, Hay, Roosevelt, Root, 
Taft, Carnegie and King Kdward, with a rec- 
ord of six hundred disputes settled in this way, 
with the support of peaceful millions, its day 
of triumph now seems rapidly drawino- near. 

Very recently, in his address before the 
I'eace and Arbitration Society on March '22nd, 
li)l(), President Taft declared "Personally I do 
not see any more reason why matters of inter- 
national honor should not be referred to a 
Court of Arbitration - a tribunal composed of 
men of honor, who understand (|uestions of 
national honor, than matters of property or of 
national proprietorship." 



IS COMING TRUE 

This is advanced ground, but the family of 
nations will soon encamp on it. When the 
world admits that all disputes can be settled 
by peaceful arbitration the reason and excuse 
for the burdens of armament which now op- 
press the people will have passed forever. 

The first Hague Conference framed a 
Magna Charta for the nations; the second 
constituted the Court of .\rbitral Justice, 
wliicli the third will doubtless complete and 
confirm. In this action, as General Grant 
anticipated, the United States Supreme Court 
will no doubt be considered as a pattern. 
When that glad time arrives, when the sign, 
"International Differences Settled Here", 
shall be displayed before the nations of the 
world at the Hague, let it be remembered that 
America's great soldier looked for the coming 
of that day, while over the tribunal let there 
be placed the noble words that crowned his 
life, and mark his resting place, "Let Us 
Have Peace." 

"For all that and all that 
It's coming yet for all that ; 
When man to man the world o'er 
Shall brothers be for all that." 




(il.NEKAl. ROUEHl EUWAKD l.EE. BURN JAN. l»th. 1»07 ; DIED UCl . 12th. 18TU. 

From Ct^ntury Magazine, April, 1902. 

Tiiis pii(»liitii-aph, taiieii shortly after tlie surrender, is said to Ije tile resuil of 

(ienerai Lee's first sitting for a pietiire after the war. 



To develop a oroat soldier there imi.st needs be a great antatidiiist. Iti this 
respect Grant and Lee were indi-hted to each other. None better than General 
Grant recognized the ability and character of (ienerai Lee. "Enemies in war, in 
peace friends", they will live together in .American History as great soldiers and 
great men. After the war was over, (ienerai Lee said to his followers : "Remember 
that we form but one country now. Abandon all sectional animosities, and make 
your sons Americans"— a fine way, this, of saying "let us have peace." 

In line with the sons and other descendants of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and 
Porter, in our Army and Navy to-day ai-e those of Fit/.hugh Lee, Harly, Longstreet, 
Pickett, Wheeler, Stonewall Jackson and Beauregard, defenders of the same old 
flag and the indivisible Kejiublic for which it stands. 




FHOTOURAPH TAKEN IN 1884. OWNEU BV UNION LEAGUE CLUB. NEW YORK CITY. 
From Century .Mauazinv, May. IS8&. 



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UKAND KhVll-.W OF lilt: UNIUN AKMV AT WASIIINU] (IN, MAY Mill, IM:<. 
Fi-oni MrCluro's MaKiiziiii', Miin-h. 1901. 

General Sherman is shown in the foreuround. General Grant, President Johnson and Secretary Stanton, 
who ordered the review, appear on the reviewinu stand. On May 23rd Meade's army, sixty abreast, was six 
hours in passing this point ; and on the 24th Sherman's army, in the same formation, occupied seven lioiirs in 
passim;. They totrether numbered ahnul two hundred thousand men- a vast stream oi veterans, and \r\ (inly 
one-fifth of the niiuhty tide of blue setting northward and homeward in the dawn of peace. 






FACSIMILE OF CONCLUSION OF GENERAL GRANT'S LETTER OF JULY 2d, 18K3 TO IMS I'HVSICIAN. Dr. JOHN H. DOUGLAS. 

(See followinc page for the futi texO 
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KULL TFXT OF THE REMARKAHLH LKTTKR QUOTED ABOVE. 



After General Grant's death, this letter was published in the 
newspapers. It is written in lead pencil on yt-llow memoraiuimn 
paper o( the width shown in the above facsimile, whieh has been 
engraved for the niaga/ine by permission of Dr. Doiiylas ; 

Dr., I asi< yon not toshowthis to any one. unless physicians you 
consult with, until the end. Particularly 1 want it kept from my 
family. If known to one man tin- [cipci > will t-'ct it and tlicy will 
yet It. It would only distrc-,^ tln-in ;iliiiusl b-yond .■iKliirancc In 
know It, and, by reflex would distr---,^ inc. I li.ivc imt rhuiii^i-d 
my mind materially since I wrote you before in Ilic same strain. 
Now, however, I know that I gain in slreiiKth some days, but 
when 1 do go back, it is beyond where I started to improve. I 
think the chances are very decidedly In favor of your being able 
to keep me alive until the change of weather, Iuw-m iK the winter. 
Of course there are contingencies that iniu'lil :iii.i' ;il any lime 
that would carry me off very suddenly. Ilic niii-.i pinbable of 
these is choking, tinder these circumstance-; hi..- is not worth 
living. I am very thankful to have been spared this lon^', because 
it has enabled me to practically complete the work in wliicii I 
take so much Intcrtfst. 1 cannot stir up streni:il> <noiii;li lo re- 
view It and make additions and subtrac:tions that would suggest 
themselves to me and are not likely to to any om^ else. 

Under the above circumstances, I will he the happiest, the 



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most pain I can avoid. If there Is to be any cxlraordiiiaiy cure 
such as some people believe there is to he, it will ii.-\ iiup iiscii. 
I would say therefore to you and your collcauur^ ■<> in;iKr nn- 
as comfortable as you can. If it is within Guds pru\ idcu.r lli.il 
I should go now, I am ready to obey His call without a murmur. 
I should prefer going now to enduring my present suffenng for a 
single day without hope of recovery. As I have stated. 1 am 
Ihankhil lor th.- providential .xt.-iisioii of my time to enable me 
to ciintiMii'' my wjik. I ani tin tlnT lliaiikliil, ami in a much 
U'rc it i-r di' ui''' ■" t li^niK till. Ill ■!■, Ill ■>.■ it ha-, i-nalilr.l me lo see for my- 
seltthc happy haimuny whuli ha-- so sudd.-nly sprung up be- 
tween those <-ngaged buta tewshurt years ago in deadly conflict. 
It has been an inestimable blessing to me to hear the kind (-x- 
nressions towards me in person from all parts of our country, 

II nationalities ; of all religions and of no religion; 

and National troops alike ; of soldiers' orL^anl/n- 

iiical. sciiiililic. ri-ligious, and all other socu-tn-.. 

isl every .-iti/eii in the land. They have broiiylit 
il Ibey have not effected a cure. To you ami 

_, „ ^„, i I acknowledge my Indebtedness for having 

brought me through the "valley of the shadow of death" to en- 
able me to witness these things, ^-oiv-r 

U. S. (iHAN 1 . 
Mr. M« tlRr.uoK, N. Y.. July 2, 1K».1. 



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Joy to my bea 
your coUeagU' 



GENERAL GRANT'S REMARKABLE LAST YEAR 



The life of U. S. Grant was remarkable, yet 
his death was (juite as much so. Someone 
has called his last twelve months "his greatest 
year." The expression challenges thought. 
Great it certainly was — great with misfortune 
and with courage ; great with suffering and 
with fortitude ; great with perfidy and with 
friendship ; great in every moment with 
sympathy, love and peac?. 

Never before in the world's history has the 
passing of a famous man been watched for so 
long a time, and by so many sympathetic 
hearts. The unicjue struggle ended on Mount 
McGregor, July 23, 1885. It began on Christ- 
mas eve, 1883, when the General slipp?d on 
the ice in front of his home, in New 
York City, sustaining an injury to 
his hip which entailed a great deal 
of suffering and incapacitated him 
for a long time. When this occur- 
red the General was sixty-one 
years of age ; strong physically and 
mentally, with an ample income 
and in his own estimation worth at 
least a million dollars. 

On May P, 1884, the banking firm 
of (irant and Ward, in which his 
son Ulysses, Jr was a partner, and 
in which the General had invested 
his money, collapsed. As a crown- 
ing imposition the General was in- 
duced to make a loan of one hund- 
red and fifty thousand dollars from 
Mr. W. H Vanderbilt, with the ex- 
pectation of saving the firm which 
lu' was led to believe was only 
temporarily embarrassed. This 
loan, together with all the General's 
personal funds, and with those of 
his children and many of his friends, 
was swept away by the failure — 
the result of a partner's perfidy. 

The shock to the General was something too 
great to describe. He promptly made over to 
Mr. Vanderbilt all of his individual property, 
an action in which Mrs. Grant joined. Mr. 
\'anderbilt's part in the transai'tion was most 
considerate, and the rare contents of the home 
were finally turned over by him to the National 
Museum at Washington, where they now re- 
main. When the truth was fully known, and 
the General realized that he had been used as 
a decoy, and that his name and fame had been 
impugned before the eyes of his countrymen, 
the blow was almost too heavy for his heroic 
spirit to bear. To this was added the fact that 



he was left penniless in the house that was 
crowded with his trophies. But help was soon 
on the way. Four days after the failure, an 
unknown countryman, Mr. Charles Wood, of 
Lansingburg, New York, wrote to General 
Grant and offered to loan him a thousand dol- 
lars on his note for twelve months, without 
interest, with the option of renewal at the 
same rate. He enclosed a check for five hun- 
dred dollars, saying it was "On account of my 
share for services ending April, 18G5." This 
uni(|ue offer, which the General accepted, was 
the forerunner of others prompted by the 
same spirit. Mr. Romero, the Mexican Min- 
ister, called and on going left his check for a 




Cold Medal, presented 1o Gi'tu'ial Grant tty joint resolution of Congress, 

Dec. 17. 1863, for victories at Donelson. Vicksbtirg, Chattanooga 

and otlier places on the Mississippi. 



thousand dollars lying unnoticed on the table. 

At about this time the editorsof the Century 
Magazine, who had previously retiuested him 
to write some articles on the Civil War, re- 
newed the suggestion. The occupation of his 
mind, and the remuneration which had now 
become of some interest, led him to make the 
attempt, and the Century for February, 1.S8.'), 
contained his account of the Battle of Shiloh. 
Out of this article and three others grew 
(ieneral Grant's famous Memoirs. 

In the meanwhile his lameness had contin- 
ued, and an alarming condition of his throat 
had developed. This was soon diagnosed as 



GENERAL GRANT'S REMARKABLE LAST YEAR 



cancer. To its alleviation the highest medical 
skill was devoted. With the aid of his former 
military secretary, General Badeaux, and his 
son, Colonel Grant, the literary work went on. 
A bill was presented in Congress to place him 
on the retired list, but it dragged along very 
slowly. When the world came to understand 
the true inwardness of the situation, to realize 
the height of the general's honor, and the 
length to which he had gone in the effort to 
make restitution in the failure of which he 
was the victim, and to know of the hopeless 
suffering to which he was condemned, sym- 
pathy came from all quarters— from the South 
as well as from the North — and from all people 




Tills Medal has diameter ot 4 inches, weitlht 14IJ54.40 [■rains; iiultion value 

$605.20. It is now deposited uitli nmnerous ottier Grant trophies 

in the National .Museum at Wasliinf^ton. 



— the sons of General Lee and Genci'al .Inliii- 
son, Jefferson Davis himself, General Buck- 
ner, his old antagonist at Fort Donaldson -all 
united in expressing their syiupathy. 

Finally the bill for his retirement, with the 
rank of (ieneral, passed Congress on the 
morning of March 4th, almost in its last mom- 
ents, and President Cleveland signed the 
Commission as the second act of his admin- 
istration, (lenoral Grant was again in the 
Army of which he had so long been a leadei-, 
and its helpful effect on him was something 
i-emarkable. Meanwhile, the good will con- 
tinued to be shown while the whole world 



watched his sick-room. Touched by the uni- 
versal evidences of sympathy, he sent an 
Easter message of thanks to his "friends and 
those who have not hitherto been regarded as 
friends"— he had no enemies left. But the 
relentless disease continued its advances, and 
on the ninth of June he was removed to 
Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, to a cottage 
offered by Mr. Joseph W. Drexel. As the 
pain and suffering increased, his industry 
seeiued to keep pace. He now had seen that 
his voluiue was to become a great source of 
income to his family, and the thought of leav- 
ing them in comfort spurred him on and 
maintained his strength. After he became 
unable to dictate, he resorted to 
writing, with the unusual result 
that his last thoughts and words 
instead of being left to be repeated 
by those who heard them, exist as 
written by his own hand. 

When he came to realize what 
part his suffering and approaching 
death had perforiued in calling 
forth the sympathy of the world, 
and especially the syiupathy of his 
former antagonists, (ieneral Grant's 
old spirit of luagnanimity burst into 
rare and perfect flower, and it was 
given him to show the world how 
a great soldier could die ; how the 
Commander who could with the 
return of each dreadful day hurl 
his weary army "by the left flank 
forward," could as a single soldier 
fight the last great eneiuy, fighting 
on and on, and when speechless 
writing on and on until his loved 
ones were provided for, until the 
whole world did him homage, and 
until the Nation he had helped to 
preserve was encircled with a last- 
ing tie of fellowship and fraternity. 

.\nd so it came to pass that on July 21?, 188.'), 
a day or two after his book had been com- 
|)leted, the life that had begun in a cottage at 
Mount Pleasant ended in a cottage at Mount 
McGregor, and the sympathizing world saw 
Ulysses S. Grant, great lover and great de- 
fender of our country, fall asleep. 



To June, 1H87, Mrs. Grant had received as 
her share of profits of the Memoirs, $:V^-i,4b'.).h'.i, 
the largest amount ever received by an 
author or his representative for a single work. 




OKANT'S BIRTHPLACE AT POINT PLEASANT. OHIO (ISS'i) 
Prom Century Magazine, October, IS.S5. 

This house looked upon the Ohio River. It has been removed to Columbus, Ohio, where It Is preser\'ed as a relic 
in ;in eni'lo-iinvr •^fructuto r)f shine, iron and t'lass. which is shown on another patfe. 

THK I'UNERAL AND FINAL INTERMENT 



The luiU'i'ul of General (jrant was of the 
most imposing character. At Mt. McCireti'or 
his body was guarded by U. S. soldiers and 
veterans of his old command, .\fter lying in 
state in the Capitol in Albany, and in the City 
Hall in New York, the funeral took place on 
.\ugust 8fh, 1885. A million of his country- 
men, with uncovered heads, witnessed the 
great Commander's body, drawn by twenty- 
four lilack horses, pass over the seven miles 
from the City Hall to the temporary tomb on 
Riverside Drive. The procession itself was 
three miles long. In it were the General's 
children and grandchildren. President Cleve- 
land, Kx-Fresidents Hayes and .■\rthur, mem- 
bers of the Cabinet, of Congress, of the 
Su|)reme Court, Governors from our states, 
and .\mbassadors from foreign countries. The 
.\rmy, however, furnished the most significant 
feature. It was under the command of 
Genei-al Hancock, with whom there served 
for the day General Gordon, Chief of Staff to 
General R. E. Lee, while arm in arm walked 
General Sherman and General Joseph H. 
Johnston, General Sheridan and General 
Uuckner, old classmates at West Point, old 
antagonists in '61, old friends once more and 
evermore, as they laid away the body of the 
comrade who had done the most to reunite 



them, while "taps" and "lights out" echoed 
softly over the Hudson and its hills. 

Twelve years later, .\pril 27, 1897, Riverside 
furnished the closing scene. It was the 
seventy-fifth anniversary of General Grant's 
birth, when his body was transferred to its 
permanent tomb. .Xgain the countless 
thousands, again the evidences of sorrow, 
again the great of our lands and other lands, 
again the minute guns from the vessels of war, 
again the army and the navy, again the great 
object lesson in fraternity as his united coun- 
trymen stood guard while the members of his 
Grand Army Post performed their last service 
for their comrade, leaving his body to rest in 
its great white temple of peace. 



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" I feel that we are on tlie eve of a new era, 
when there is to be great harmony between 
the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay 
to be a living witness to the correctness of 
this prophecy, but I feel within me that it is 
to be so. The universally kind feeling ex- 
pressed for me at a time when it was supposed 
that each day would prove my last, seemed to 
me the beginning of the answer to— Let us 
liave peace." Conclusion of Gnmfs Memoirs. 



AFTER ALL 

This may reach the eye of some who have 
misjudifed U. S. Grant ; who really knew little 
about his inner life, or who years ago, when 
his political enemies were active, formed an 
incorrect opinion of him ; who may even have 
misconstrued the dignified silence which he 
maintained under outrageous personal abuse ; 
but who, as they have observed the tactics of 
those who in our day for personal ends or 
financial gain bear false witness against their 
countrymen, have come to realize how (irant 
in his time was made to suffer in mind and 
reputation. 

Such enlightened friends as these would 
welcome the opportunity to meet this true 
patriot and salute him ; to say "We know you 
now, so do your countrymen. We understand 
your love of country. We appreciate your 
integrity of purpose. We are thankful for 
what you accomplished. We sympathize with 
what you endured in the army, in the presi- 
dency, at the hands of dishonest men and in 
your days on Mt. McGregor, and we thank 
God that you have lived." 

It is, of course, impossible now to say this 
to General Grant, but those who would like to 
do so are reminded that at this moment our 
country needs our love, and the men who to- 
day are endeavoring to serve it with honest, 
loyal hearts need our sympathy. May both 
henceforth be given in greater measure be- 
cause of this brief contomi^lation of the life of 
our great man of war, niul greater man of 
peace, Ulysses S. Grant. 



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